11% chance of a view, in cloud all day.
The summit sits about 878 m inside the layer.
Forecast for Friday 16 October, built 2026-10-16 16:22 UTC and rebuilt twice a day. A high number is close to reliable, a low one is barely better than a shrug: how reliable is this?
The hill
- Lists
- Munro, Marilyn
- Height
- 1,292 m (167 m of drop)
- Area
- Cairngorms
- County
- Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- Grid ref
- NN963972
- OS Landranger
- 36, 43
- Summit
- large cairn
Sun
- Sunrise
- 06:50 ESE
- Sunset
- 17:10 WSW
- Daylight
- 10.33 hours
About Cairn Toul
Cairn Toul is the 4th-highest mountain in Scotland and all of the British Isles, after Ben Nevis, Ben Macdui and Braeriach. The summit is 1,291 metres above sea level. It is in the western massif of the Cairngorms, linked by a bealach at about 1125 m to Braeriach. The mountain towers above the Lairig Ghru pass.
Hour by hour, Friday 16 October
| Hour | View | Cloud base | Temp | Wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06:00 | 8% | 347 m | -1.3° | 16 W |
| 08:00 | 7% | 360 m | -1.1° | 14 WNW |
| 10:00 | 12% | 375 m | -0.9° | 16 WNW |
| 12:00 | 8% | 414 m | -0.1° | 16 NW |
| 14:00 | 8% | 403 m | -0.1° | 24 NW |
| 16:00 | 19% | 463 m | -0.3° | 23 NW |
| 18:00 | 12% | 438 m | -0.9° | 24 NW |
| 20:00 | 9% | 454 m | -1.0° | 28 NNW |
Nearby
Sgor an Lochain Uaine · The Devil's Point · Braeriach · Ben Macdui · Carn a' Mhaim · Monadh Mor
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